My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.

I'm more interested in...I'm more of a descendent. I'm more critical. It comes from a different place and nowadays the young people know how to make just light entertainment.

If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it.

There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

It's the sacrifice I'm not willing to make right now to leave my children because I felt it wasn't only my choice.